four quotes from Tao: The Pathless Path, Chapter Four
A collection of quotes from Chapter Four: No Rest For The Living of “Tao: The Pathless Path” by Osho
One day or other, an authentic inquirer comes to that great moment of realization when he feels very weary, tired - tired of all of this nonsense that goes on in the name of thinking. The word god is not God. How long can you go on playing with the word. The word food is not food. How long can you go on carrying the word food and remain hungry. One day or other you will become aware that what you are carrying is only a word - it cannot nourish you, it cannot give you life, it cannot give you peace. It cannot give you anything.
And the politician and the priest are not very separate; they are partners in the same business. The business is not to allow man to be here now, because once a man is here now, he's so happy that he won't listen to any politician and he won't listen to any priest. If man is allowed to be here now, he will be so peaceful and so restful that he will not bother about any heaven. He has achieved it - who bothers about your paradise? Your paradise seems meaningful because man is miserable. For the paradise to remain meaningful man has to remain miserable.
Society is abnormal - a great crowd of mad people. The gentlemen is one who follows this crowd. A gentlemen has no soul. Of course, the society respects him tremendously. The society has to respect this man, the society calls him the mahatma, the saint, the sage. The society respects him because the man has sacrificed his life for society.
And Lao Tzu says you can rest in life, because even while you are walking you can remain unmoving. Your innermost center can remain unmoving; you can become the center of the cyclone. The wheel moves but the hub remains. The wheel goes on moving, but it moves on something that is not moving. Act, do, but remain the nondoer deep within. Talk, speak, but remain in silence deep within.
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